Constituency
17. Madhuban
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1969
BR-MADHUBAN
CPI 53.2%won by 27.0%INC 26.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 60.3% to 27.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 23.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.4% between them, down from 93.2% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
42,153
Margin
11,399
27.04%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1MAHENDRA BHARTICommunist Party of India · CPI22,44353.2%
- 2RUPLALL RAIIndian National Congress · INC11,04426.2%
- 3RAJ MANGAL PD. SINHABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS5,56313.2%
- 4BACHU SINGHLTC · LTC2,8946.9%
- 5KAMTA PRASAD SINGHSHD · SHD2090.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- −33.3%
- CPI share
- 76.7% → 53.2%
- INC share
- 16.4% → 26.2%
- Turnout
- — → —